On the Incarnation - Gregory of Nazianzus

Foolish who worships not th’ eternal Word 
as equal to the high Father in heaven. 
Foolish who worships not th’ incarnate Word, 
as equal to the heavenly Word on High, 
but cuts from Father’s might His Word, or else 
severs the Word from human shape, our breadth. 

I saw my hand - Oktay Rifat

While drinking water I saw my hand
Softly fuzzed with pink holes
I said hi there, hi there hand of mine
Pick up a wineglass pick up a fork pick up a pencil

And when the time comes avoid
Picking up a sword picking up a gun
My brave young lad my lion my lovely one

Robenson - Cahit Sıtkı Tarancı

Robinson, my clever Robinson
you don't know how I envy you.
If you could only show me your island,
there I would find peace of mind.

Opinions no Pinions - Lâmiî Çelebi

Oh,—show—no vain triumph o’er thy neighbors!
They—may—lay snares for thy shameful fall:

Munajat - ‛Arif

O Lord, to thee is never a beginning, neither end; 

Thy mercy's ocean, limitless, doth over all extend. 

Longing (Garod) - Hagop Norashkharian

The years have passed and still pass…

Yet you seem to me only

Illusive and a far dream,

Like invincible mountain.

You Had Given Your Word - Candan Erçetin

You had given your word to me

To stay here always by my me

We swore all this this didn't we?

That whatever happened, we would be together

O unity of threefold light - Metrophanes of Smyrna

O unity of threefold light, 

Send out thy loveliest ray. 

And scatter our transgression's night, 

And turn it into day! 

From Another Hill - Yahya Kemal Beyatli

I looked at you from another hill, dear Istanbul!

I know you like back of my hand, and love you dearly.

Come, come and sit on my heart's throne as long as I live

Just to love a district of yours is worth a whole life.

On Spring - Lâmiî Çelebi

From the pleasure, joy, and rapture of this hour,

In its frame to hold its soul earth scarce hath power.

Rent its collar, like the dawning, hath the rose;

From its heart the nightingale sighs forth its woes.

Love in Old Age - Paulus Silentiarius

Let others boast of charms divine,

The agile step and graceful air; 

More lovely is thy wrinkled face,

And threads of silver in thy hair.

Song - Cahit Külebi

Your lips are red

Your hands are white

Take my hands, child,

Hold them a while.

The Dance - Siamanto

In a field of cinders where Armenian life was still dying,

a German woman,

trying not to cry

told me the horror she witnessed:

How are You at once the source of fire - Symeon the New Theologian

How are You at once the source of fire,

how also the fountain of dew?

How at once burning and sweetness,

how a remedy for all disease?

i want a country - Cahit Sıtkı Tarancı

i want a country

let the sky be blue, the bough green, the cornfield yellow

let it be a land of birds and flowers

The drink sent down from Truth - Yunus Emre

The drink sent down from Truth, 

we drank it, glory be to God. 

And we sailed over the Ocean of Power, 

glory be to God.

A Great and Mighty Wonder - Germanus of Constantinople

 A great and mighty wonder,

a glorious mystery:

a virgin bears an infant

who veils his deity.

The Grasshopper - Anacreon

Happy insect! what can be

In happiness compar'd to thee?

Fed with nourishment divine,

The dewy morning's gentle wine!

In Response to a Question - Özge Lena

What am I doing? Really?

Do you want the boring answer

Or the naked truth?

Grammar and Medicine - Agathias Scholasticus

A thriving doctor sent his son to school 

To gain some knowledge, should he prove no fool;